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The John Hinde Postcard Collection at the National Photographic Archive.
by Karl Leonard, DIT NPA Internship, Sept-Dec 2013. The Archiving in Context module for BA Photography students at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) provides third year photography students...
Celebrate Culture Night 2026 at the NLI
Yeats in Love, Joyce Skateboards and Dreamboat Laureate
by Annie West, Illustrator Annie recently donated a selection of her prints to our Prints & Drawings Collection Yeats in Love Looking at my work, you’d probably expect to hear I’m busy...
TY: REVEAL 2026 Pilot Programme Inspires Young Illustrators
In January 2026 the National Library of Ireland (NLI) welcomed a group of transition year students to the library for a 10-week pilot programme exploring illustration and the NLI's vast collection of Prints and Drawings.
In Bloom’s footsteps: National Library of Ireland brings Ulysses to life with new Bloomsday 2026 programme
Seamus Heaney: The Man, the Myth, the Making of a Poet
Joyce Manuscripts Online - Beta but Beautiful!
by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student Bloomsday On the 16th of June, 1954 the first Bloomsday was celebrated in Ireland. Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce and John...
Hugh Lane, the Municipal Gallery & Provenance
Guide Books to the Second City in the Empire
by Katy Milligan, NLI habitué and PhD student at TRIARC (The Irish Art Research Centre, TCD) Lurking among the shelves of the NLI is a group of texts which has lately caught my attention. While I...
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